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She was dazed, Mrs. Sam was. But she carried off the situation anyhow, and gave us time to breathe. We needed it. "If I were his highness," said Miss Cobb, spreading the Irish lace collar she was making over her knee and squinting at it, "I should wish my fiancee to be more er dignified. Those old Austrian families are very haughty. They would not understand our American habit of osculation."
Cobb. "I'm sure I should have fainted; and what brazen boldness to walk out together on the Common at nine o'clock in the morning. That girl who brought in the tea it's my belief that a young man goes after her but even they wouldn't demean themselves to be seen at it just after breakfast." "You don't mean to say as your Deborah encourages a man, Mrs. Cobb! I don't know what we are a-comin' to.
I've seen them fast before, and when a fat man starts to live on his own fat, like a bear, he gets about the same disposition. Mrs. Biggs started back, but Miss Cobb waited a moment at the foot of the steps. "Mr. Van Alstyne is back," she said, "but he came alone." "Alone!" I repeated, staring at her in a sort of daze. "Alone," she said solemnly, "and I heard him ask for Mr. Carter.
For so much she was grateful, but she missed the weekly room rent and the weekly board money. The financial situation was becoming more and more serious for her, and as yet Solomon Cobb had not made known his decision in the matter of the mortgage.
Did you ever read Cinderella, or The Yellow Dwarf, or The Enchanted Frog, or The Fair One with Golden Locks?" "No," said Mr. Cobb cautiously, after a moment's reflection. "I don't seem to think I ever did read jest those partic'lar ones. Where'd you get a chance at so much readin'?" "Oh, I've read lots of books," answered Rebecca casually.
The English captain brought his vessel to anchor under the lee of Partridge Island and sent a detachment of men in a whale boat to reconnoitre. They were fired upon by the French and Indians, and the French commander, Boishebert, insisted that Cobb should quit the harbor, as it belonged to the French king, and threatened to send his Indians to destroy him and his crew.
Horn stood on the other side of the bed, the same calm, fixed expression on her face, as if she was trying to read the unknowable. Dr. Wallace sat on a chair beside his patient, his fingers on Richard's pulse. "Is he gone?" asked Oliver, stepping quickly to his father's side, his voice choking. Dr. Wallace shook his head. Amos Cobb drew near, and whispered in the doctor's ear.
Cobb to Fort Cumberland to press into the King's service any sloops or schooners available to transport provisions and stores up the river, as the majority of his vessels were too large to attempt the passage of the falls. Meanwhile he determined to repair the old fort and work was begun upon it on the 24th September.
At the end of two days it was plain enough that they were acting in bad faith, and would continue to unless strong pressure was brought to bear. Indeed, they had already started for the Witchita Mountains, so I put on the screws at once by issuing an order to hang Satanta and Lone Wolf, if their people did not surrender at Fort Cobb within forty-eight hours.
He served during the rebellion as Captain of Volunteers, and Assistant Provost Marshal General for Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Dakota. In 1864 he was elected the Representative from Kansas to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and was re-elected to the Fortieth. 88. AMASA COBB was born in Crawford County, Illinois, September 27, 1823.
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